Top 10 Muscle Cars of the 60s and 70s
The 1960s saw the US auto industry consolidation in the Big Three General Motors Ford and Chrysler and American Motors These companies not only dominated the domestic market with sales of cars of the 1960s, but the global market and in 1960 US companies built 93 percent of cars sold in the US and 48 percent of global sales.
In the 1950s, however, led by Volkswagen and soon followed by Fiat Renault Datsun Nissan, and Hillman imports began to nibble their way into the rich US market The growing presence of imports disrupted Detroit, and the three major responded with their own small GM cars 1960 Corvair produced the Ford Falcon and Chrysler Valiant.
GM introduced three new smaller cars in the U S 1961 Buick Special model Oldsmobile F-85 and Pontiac Tempest.
Oldsmobile F-85 was a compact car sedan, coupe and power station that had a V8 engine from 1961 to 1963 In 1964, the F-85 has been updated to a car via cutlass size was initially the top model range F-85, but became a separate model in 1964 with the F-85 continued nameplate solely on the lowest price model by model year 1972 result, all intermediate 1960 Oldsmobile cars were cutlass.
Chevrolet introduced the radical Corvair which featured an aluminum 6 rear cylinder layout engine 1960 Chevrolet Corvair 500 Deluxe came with a base engine carburetor Corvair a gun and a manual transmission with three Chevrolet speeds may not have copied the 1960s VW cars but many basics of air-cooled rear engine, compact transaxle and suspension were similar with the main difference that the Corvair was larger inside and out and was a compact size the American Corvair represent a plurality of first production Chevy, including the first engine air cooled back only the first unified body, first turbo production car, and the independent suspension each front and rear wheel.
In early 1960, a sports model Monza was offered with bucket seats, wheel covers and vinyl full interior It sports cars of the 1960s were really stimulate Corvair sales and attract the interest of fans in the years to come.
Even during this first period of the Corvair was developing a suite and was considered one of the sport compact, sometimes being called a poor man's Porsche.
As part of the model year 1962, Chevrolet introduced a new line of 1960, the Chevy II Initial Corvair was positioned as an economy car, but he was much more successful with plusher trim and image more sporty Monza model sold well in 1961.
Cheap and easy to repair, the new Rambler was a success in the year skewered 1958 recession, when American Motors was the only domestic automaker to a profit in 1960 Rambler has produced more than 450,000 cars, and became number three in sales among domestic brands.
Hikers were the first cars to use unibody construction throughout their range of models The main advantage of this technology is a stronger structure without the need for a separate chassis with fewer squeaks and rattles, the overwhelming majority of cars contemporary, except trucks and some SUV†s owe their design to some form of this car 1960 innovation original unibody construction.
In another important step for security, Rambler was the first to offer seat belts optional in 1950, and the first to provide standard equipment by the end of the decade.
In 1962, the introduction of compact cars by the Big Three automakers decreased Rambler†of the market share.
Rambler has presented some of the most attractive models of all manufacturers in the mid-1960 AMC Rambler Limited Edition puts added additional emphasis on this period with the tests of the classic series and ambassador redesigned again for 1966 and the introduction of Marlin conventional base for 1965.
Marlin crude was an attempt to capture a piece of the “personal car” market dominated by the Ford Thunderbird and Buick Riviera Unfortunately Rambler†attempt to compete with “Big Three” met with limited success their 1960 cars will sell well in the name Rambler was down in favor of a market dominated by flashiness and power a new image was in the works, and in 1968 the name Rambler for years a symbol of the economy, showed the door - ending a saga Car 1960s known for saving gas.
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